Brutus - the new ox?

Shara asked us to tie a rope to the laundry basket and then got in it and dangled the rope in front of Brutus and tried to get him to put it in his mouth and drag her around. Needless to say, he didn't cooperate.

Thanksgiving 2008

• Lunch @ Shara's school - so cute! All the kids wrote their "How to cook a turkey" recipes and had them posted to their cubbies. Shara's, "You can't eat the bones! Put it in a pan with oil, then put it in the oven for 20 minutes." The kids were so happy to have their parents come. When Kacy & I walked in, from outside the kids started shreaking.
• Lookers came and we had Chatta Box - Shara loves the dumplings. Jill asked what was in the dumplings and shara told her "meat"
• Shara stuck to Samantha like glue
• Breakfast time - I cleaned the fruit and Shara stood on her step-stool next to me and cut it all up with her lettuce knife (so glad we learned about that!). It was great as long as I wasn't watching her.
• Shara spent all the day with her cousins and I didn't see that much of her. They played the Dr. Seuss game, watched the parade, bellied up to the bar, etc. Lots of fun.
• Dinnertime I thanked people for things they did and brought and Shara said, "and I thank my mommy for making this great dinner", or something like that.
  
• Bedtime - Shara was asleep before Alan came into the room

New found love

For Shara's birthday, Debby gave her a beautiful, so soft, bathrobe. It has puppy ears on the hood and is so cute. Shara wouldn't try it on. Well, the past 2 nights she's slept with it on and wore it to school today over her clothes.

She's so cute

We had a great time at Hannah's 5th bday party on Saturday. I asked Shara what her favorite part was, thinking it would be making the pizza or the chicken fingers, and she said, "playing with Sophie. She's so cute." Shara was so gentle with her. Sophie was standing, wanting to eat some cherios, and shara brushed her hand. I told Shara she could touch her and she took her hand and was so excited. She really would make a great big sister, but she'll have to settle for baby sitting when she gets bigger.

Tonight she said, "guess what we're going to do in school tomorrow? We're going to make chickens, made out of paper, for Thanksgiving! We can put it on the table and everyone will ask who made this?" Yes, she meant turkeys. But, she can count to 10 in Spanish, including 0, so give her a break. She can also spell - cat, dog, mom, dad, shara, molly, tenley, on, no, book, moon, cow, pig. I think there are others but she doesn't perform well on demand. She also says she doesn't like to read, but apparently she likes to spell. I wonder if she realizes they're related?